Volume 7: Finishing Off With Some Great TV
Featured in this edition: Guru Studio, Breakthrough Entertainment, Muse Entertainment, DHX Media, Six Eleven Media, Digital Dimension, Riverbank Pictures, Passez Go, and Trilight Entertainment. During the course of the 2018 Kidscreen Summit, the Shaw Rocket Fund has proudly showcased Canadian production companies and their programs. These companies have worked diligently to produce content for our kids, and we're here to spread the
news!
Guru StudioJustin Time season 3 has been picked up by Super RTL (Germany) and Cartoonito (Italy) Justin Time and PAW Patrol both received Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Preschool Program for the second consecutive year True and the Rainbow Kingdom, Guru’s flagship preschool series and a Netflix Original, launched in summer 2017 at a celebrity-packed event in LA, featuring Pharrell Williams True and the Rainbow
Kingdom was greenlit for season 3, and the series’ official Giphy page has over 175 million views
Breakthrough Entertainment- Two games from The Adventures of Napkin Man, a preschool series that helps kids understand and manage their emotions, starring Yannick Bisson, are now live - and two more are launching soon
Muse Entertainment- Helen’s Little School (52 x 11), a preschool animated series, is a France-Canada coproduction between Superprod and Muse Entertainment.
It launched in September on TFO and is currently airing on Knowledge Kids
DHX Media (Production)Peanuts and Strawberry Shortcake were acquired by DHX last year, adding more than 340 half-hours of content to its library and increasing its scale in consumer products. Peanuts found a home on DHX Televison’s Family Channel, which aired A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown Animated comedy series Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs season 2 and original show Supernoobs have received greenlights to begin production The new Teletubbies series landed on China’s top streaming platforms, including iQiyi, Youku and Tencent, reaching more than 114M views since launch in June 2017
DHX Media (Distribution/Broadcast)A global broadcast agreement was signed with Nickelodeon International for Massive Monster Mayhem season 1, following the show’s successful launch on Nicktoons in the US in October 2017 DHX Media struck its largest deal to date with Amazon Prime Video, licensing 13+ kids’ shows to the global SVOD service. The deal spans more than 200 territories and 15 languages The WildBrain kids’ network Featured Videos grew from 46,000 to 65,000 in 2017, generating more than 55 billion minutes’ watch time from July through December Degrassi: Next Class and The Next Step, hit Family Channel shows, both received 2018 Canadian Screen Award nominations for Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series
Six Eleven Media- Six Eleven Media is producing Addison season 2, an animated pre-school series for CBC and SRC, about a young girl who loves to solve mysteries - when she’s not busy building quirky inventions. Season 1 premiered on CBC on January 6, 2018
Digital Dimension- Animated TV series Zafari (52x11), the first with real-time rendering, is in production and coming in 2018. For ages 4 to 7, it aims to celebrate differences. Check out a preview here
Riverbank PicturesWhen I Grow Up! is currently wrapping production on its 26th episode and will launch on TVOKids this summer. Young Mikaela’s curiosity and passion for STEM propels her to explore jobs at interesting places like Google, Ripley’s Aquarium, Clearpath Robotics,
Chapman’s Ice Cream, and Ubisoft An innovative HTML 5 game supporting the TVO series is currently in production
Passez GoPassez Go is currently working on L’Académie season 2, a new youth series for Club
Illico that started broadcasting in October Passez Go sold Le Chalet seasons 1 and 2 to France last year, broadcasted on France 4
Trilight EntertainmentA.R.C.H.I.E. 2, the adventurous sequel to the entertaining family film A.R.C.H.I.E. (featuring Michael J. Fox as the voice of A.R.C.H.I.E), was picked up by Grindstone Entertainment Group in the US
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About the Shaw Rocket FundThe Shaw Rocket Fund is a vital partner of the Canadian children’s media sector in offering children robust, world-leading content on all platforms. We support Canadian-made media that reflects Canadian values and diversity, and most of all respects and speaks to children, while positively showcasing Canadian leadership on the world stage. By working with regulators and government, the Shaw Rocket Fund aims to make quality content
for kids a global priority. Since its inception, the Shaw Rocket Fund has invested over $204 million in 803 Canadian media programs for children, family, and youth audiences worldwide. Contributors to the Fund are Shaw Communications and Shaw Direct. To learn more about the Shaw Rocket Fund, go to rocketfund.ca.
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